The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-08

of which Lingg's bombs were made were
| given Parsons a long time ago TO exercise
with in place of dumb bells. for which he
had asked. At any rate, those pieces of
pipe are missing from Parsons CELL and
the theory is that they are the same pieces
of which Lingg made the bombs.
ENGEL's CONFESSION.
Just before noon to-day Anarchit Engel
was visited by DR.. l.. j. Gray, Assistant
County Physician, to whom the Anarchist
made a partia! confession of his attempted
! suicide. In addition to swallowing lauda-
mum, Engel said he took sixteen morphine
pills Friday night DR.. Gray was amazed
at this intelligence, but understood why
they proved Intellectual when Engel said
! brought to jail. That was exactly eighteen
months yesterday, and long since then the
pills ceased to have any active power.
Engel said ne swallowed the sixteen pills at
gulp late Friday night and walked his cell
all day Saturday, expecting at any moment
TO fall down. When it grew toward night
and the morphine had no effect, he resolved
| to take laudanum. After his
friends left in the evening he
poured out six or seven teaspoonfuls of the
poison and tossed il off. DR.. Gray thin ks
that the stuff was purchased in some cheap
| drug store and that in consequence it was
adulterated and very poor article of its
kind That is why the laudanum did not
have effect, for if the drug were of the right
| quality half the quantity Engel swallowed
would have been enough to kill him.
ONLY MADE HIM DRowsY.
! The old man was made drowsy by the
| poison, that was ALL and his loud breathing
was what led TO the discovery. At first he
said he had been drinking whisky, but a
single glance at the pupils of the mans eyes
was enough to convince DR.. Gray that he
! had swallowed opium in some form. Coffee
was given him, and he was made to exert
himself and move about. The primary
| effect, such as it was, soon passed
| off and left the would-be suicide
a little dazed This forenoon he was sleepy
| and confused, but withal talkative When
| he found further concealment useless he
! told why he wanted to die. He'd rather
| die, he said, than go the penitentiary for
| life, and he'd rather go off by way
| of poison than the route ordained by law.
| He didn't think he had a fair trial The
old man said he had only made three
speeches, and what he seemed to
had not made thirty or 800 speeches when
he found he was to be hanged for speech
making. Dr. Gray asked how long he had
had the laudanum. He answered: "Oh, a
long time" But he wouldn't tell how he
got it or who gave it to him.
SPIES MAKES A STATEMENT.
This afternoon w. NJ. Salter, who has
been working in company with II. d.
Lloyd to secure the signatures of prominent
citizens to the request for communication of
| sentence against the Anarchists, asked Spies
, to say plainly what he knew about the
bombs found in LinggS cell yesterday.
Spies wrote the following, and to it are ap-
pended the signatures of Fielden and
Schwab Further below is statement by
Fischer:
CHICAGO, Ills, Nov. z, 1887.
Mr. SALTER-It is useless for me and my
friends to say that we had no knowledge of any
thing of the kind. No sane man would have
bombs in his cell, or countena any such
thing in his c3ll-think of it-subject to search
at any moment, and at all times. The first inti-
nation I received of the matter came
from Sheriff Watson last evening. l could
not believe 1t at first, and can hardly
believe it now. | haven't spoken to Iingg for
! think, nine months. | don't know much of
him, but ] think he is monomaniac l had
only seen him once or twice before we were put
together and charged with conspiracy" 1
don't believe that single one of the other pris-
onerS had even as much as a suspicion,
for otherwise they would undoubtedly have
reasoned the man out of his folly. What use
was he going TO make of the shells? Throw
them into the jail? What intention, what object
could there have been in such an undertaking?
| repeat that no sane man would be capable of
such thing. lingg. as far as can judge him,
seeks to be martyred; and to be candid would like
the rest of us to go along with him. Did he put
those instruments into his cell so that they
might be found That is question / have
been asking myself. If he had them there for
any purpose this is the only one that looks
plausible to ME He wanted to die, thinking
thereby To help the cause of labor.
But he wanted to die also. Perhaps
he thought that the best and surest way to
bring this about was to place a few bombs in his
cell. have never met as peculiar man as he
is in my life, and for almost year have con
sid and haxr 1,,l
nothing to do with him. You ask me to con-
denim his action. 1t is useless TO condemn
the action of an irresponsible man. If any man
holds MS, or any one of us, responsible for
jnggs deeds, then ] can't say why we shouldn't
be held responsible for any mischief. whatso-
ever commItted in the world, and it has actually
for everything. Very sincerely yours,
In the above concur fully,
MICHAEL ScHwAB.
also concur in the above statement,
S. FIELDEN.
Fischer wrote:
don't know what to think of it. cannot
comprehend that Lingg intended to take the
lives of the Jail officials who in every respect
have treated very kindly, neither do be-
lieve that Lingg wanted to commit suicide be-
cause he possessed too much courage The
whole affair is puzzle to me May my fate be
what it may, | will be grateful TO the Jail Of
ficias for their kind treatment TO the last
The gallows upon which the Anarchists
are to hang has been prepared, and is now
in the basement of the county jail.
Reports of the finding of the bombs in the
northwestern part of the city are said to be
without foundation. The supposed bombs
were only empty cartridge shells.
DANGEROUS OUTSIDE INFLUENCES.
Engel is reported to have said to repre-
sentatives of the Amnesty Association that
his letter given to the public short time
ago, in which he expressed himself, like
Parsons, as wishing either liberty oe
death was forced from him by powerful
outside influence, the nature of which he
dares not divulge. He also said that this
letter was not even written by him but was
penned outside the Jail and sent for his sig
nature. He alleged that thus being com
PEELED to utter sentiments which he did not
feel at heart had broken him all up, and
that he did not care TO live any longer. He
also declared that against his will he had
been prevented from signing the petition
which Spies Fielden and Schawb had ad-
dressed to Gov. Oglesby
The Secretary of the Amnesty Associa-
ton received this morning twelve page
closely written letter signed Bomb Throw
err The writer used red ink, and asserts
that he threw the'bomb, and explainssin der
tail as to the manner in which be manipula-
ted the fuse. He further declares that he
contemplated using dynamite long before
the Hay market riot, and says he intended
to throw it into the Desplaines street
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